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Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins alterations. The spelling and
  • book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been
  • a few instances, primarily in theBooks Readsections, Darwin recorded that a work had been
  • to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838
  • … [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindleys
  • 8 vo  p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian
  • in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: …
  • 1842]. Life of D. of Marlborough [A. Alison 1848]— (read) Montagus Translat of Visa
  • The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. Johns Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • 1834] (& of Europe?) [Gould 18327] & of Australia [Gould 1848]; well worth studying for
  • … [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs  Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & …
  • … [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming
  • 1818] (Brougham) Ermans Travels in Siberia [Erman 1848] (Boot) 44  (read) Bethunes
  • B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. Johns Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray
  • … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith
  • Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace
  • d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th  Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun
  • very good —— 28 Vol. IV. Moores life by Lord J. Russell [T. Moore 18536] [DAR 128: …
  • … (detestable) Nov. 27 th . Moores Life by Lord J. Russell [T. Moore 18536] Vol VI
  • 1848Memoirs of the life of William   Collins, Esq., R.A.  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: …
  • …  [Paris]. [Other eds.]  119: 19a Hind, John Russell. [1852].  The solar system: a   …
  • by Richard Owen.  Vol. 4 of  The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
  • Robert. 1843Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
  • Peacock, George. 1855Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.  London.  *128: 172; 128: 21

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

Summary

'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … obtain such a one I was (in a manner) compelled to take Mr Darwin on a far too independent footing. …
  • … fond of Natural History”… Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are …
  • … in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the only coral atoll Darwin observed first-hand.  The satire, …
  • … Ships Adventure and Beagle (1839), was written by John Clunies Ross, a controversial figure, and …
  • … didn’t meet them personally, Ross took bitter exception to Darwin and FitzRoy’s later accounts of …
  • … Introduction by Katharine Anderson John Clunies Ross’ satire, written c.1848, is a …
  • … foreman on the one hand and the texts written by FitzRoy and Darwin on the other. We can certainly …
  • … interest. Ross’ picture of both FitzRoy and Darwin on this voyage is unlike any others we …
  • … influenced Ross’ own enterprises. His attitude to Darwin was somewhat less resentful, but still …
  • … MS 37631 1824-1854  - # 4 : a satire of Narrative. Capt John Clunies Ross). Its provenance is …
  • … Belcher’s Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang (1848) and are not so marked. A final set …
  • … hand, to judge from a comparison with signed letters from John Clunies Ross. Most of the manuscript …
  • … residents except the Ross family, left after 1837. John Clunies Ross (1786-1854) was born …
  • … Recalled in 1845, he returned home in humiliation as John Murray’s publication of the new edition of …
  • … achieving success and Darwin’s renown was growing fast. In 1848, he briefly captained an …
  • … description of Cocos Keeling that was published in 1848 in Belcher’s account of the Samarang …
  • … and Writing the Scientific Voyage: FitzRoy, Darwin and John Clunies Ross.” British Journal for the …
  • … Gibson-Hill, C. A. (ed). “Documents Relating to John Clunies Ross, Alexander Hare and the Early …
  • … Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. Ross, John Clunies. “Review of the Theory of Coral …
  • … Studies 54 (2012): 227-53. [i] Russell Jones, “Earl, Logan and ‘Indonesia,’” …